Terror Scare in London Forces Authorities to Briefly Shut Down Roads Near British Parliament

London, March 9: A brief terror scare in the UK capital forced the authorities to temporarily shut down roads adjacent and leading to the British Parliament. Heavy police cover, however, continued by the time this report was published. The incident has raised an alarm among tourists, who frequent the vicinity of Victoria Embankment -- where the Parliament is located -- in large numbers.

The incident comes four days after small IEDs were recovered at London's City and Heathrow Airports, along with the Waterloo railway station, which sparked an alarm among the authorities. However, the transport facilities were not affected.

United Kingdom, along with France and Brussels, is reportedly under the radar of jihadist groups. Britain has remained on its second-highest level of terrorism alert since 2017, when five major major extremist attacks claimed the lives of 36 people.